Current Events > Christian Family Flees to Russia to Escape "Wokeness"

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/18/2224293/--Christian-family-moves-to-Russia-to-escape-LGBTQ-and-now-can-t-get-out-of-their-living-hell

The patriarch of a right-wing Canadian family of eight had just about enough of the gay people existing in his country. "We didn't feel safe for our children there in the future anymore. There's a lot of left-wing ideology, LGBTQ, trans, just a lot of things that we don't agree with that they teach there now, and we wanted to get away from that for our children."

So mom and dad sold everything they had to move to sunny Russia to raise their kids in "orthodox" values. They also gladly took donations on their social media platform from fellow right-wingers so they could live in Putin's wonderland. They did all of this just three weeks ago, and Russian officials assured them that they would work with them to get them established, and even help them get a farm. Long story short, they lived happily ever after. Except they didn't.

First off, the Russian bank where they moved their funds immediately froze their assets. The amount of money seemed suspicious, as I guess it would since most Russians outside of Putin's circle are dirt poor. As a result, the family doesn't have money to live on, and those nice Russian officials disappeared.

Since no one in the family speaks Russian they've had a bear of a time trying to argue for their money since Russia doesn't require any bank, or any business, to hire English translators. In the meantime, they discovered that Russia is a pretty damn miserable place to be right now.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80701089

Read this elsewhere.

I expect the parents to be treated as foreign agents, the kids put in foster care, and the boys sent to the grinder in Ukraine.

The his topic is woke

Do they have the option to move back?

Squall28 posted...

Do they have the option to move back?

Not without lots of money.

I forgot, what comes after fuck around again?

Squall28 posted...

Do they have the option to move back?

All their money is frozen, and none of the banks have translators.

So yes, but actually no.

At least in Europe you can kind of get away with not speaking the local language for a little while, but I would imagine not a lot of people in Russia speak English

To Russia With Love.

Here is a sample of what your troll farms produce. Enjoy.

Even if the bank has someone who knows English, they will just pretend they don't, to keep the money

They probably don't realize you need to bribe basically everyone if you want to get anything done.

mystic_belmont posted...

They probably don't realize you need to bribe basically everyone if you want to get anything done.

Another reason trump and trumpers love Russia. They love bribing and corruption.

lol

Around were fucked, out were found.

mystic_belmont posted...

All their money is frozen, and none of the banks have translators.

So yes, but actually no.

And those friendly Russian politicians that helped them move have all vanished.

A family of eight. So six kids have their lives ruined because Mom and Dad think gays are icky.

I feel a lot of schadenfreude.

I'm actually surprised Russia didn't roll out the red carpet and put them up in some nice housing. You know, give them the North Korea propaganda treatment.

The free market at work. Just pick a different bank that doesnt steal your money. We dont need none of those liberal regulations to ensure your money is safe /s

MisterPengy posted...

A family of eight. So six kids have their lives ruined because Mom and Dad think gays are icky.

The more kids a family has the higher the possibility one will be queer. They can try to run from LGBTQA woke propaganda but if one of their kids is queer no amount of running will change that. They will just be worse off in Russia if that happens.

Go unwoke, go broke and misery.

kelemvor posted...

I'm actually surprised Russia didn't roll out the red carpet and put them up in some nice housing. You know, give them the North Korea propaganda treatment.

It does seem like a massive missed opportunity by Putin

kelemvor posted...

I'm actually surprised Russia didn't roll out the red carpet and put them up in some nice housing. You know, give them the North Korea propaganda treatment.

Russia can get Tucker Carlson. They don't need to do that shit for randos

Goldice posted...

Russia can get Tucker Carlson. They don't need to do that shit for randos

I mean imagine if they could convince a mass exodus of conservative Americans to defect to Russia, and be recruited into the army that needs more soldiers

kelemvor posted...

I'm actually surprised Russia didn't roll out the red carpet and put them up in some nice housing. You know, give them the North Korea propaganda treatment.

Yeah, as @Goldice noted, Carlson's "big" enough he gives em a large enough mouthpiece as it is.
A random blind and bigoted couple? No worth to them.

To compare, it's also why North Korea tossed that one would-be BLACK American defector back over to us.

Zikten posted...

It does seem like a massive missed opportunity by Putin

My guess is that Putin sees more value in foreign fascists staying behind in their own countries than in flooding his, so they can elect dictators who'll be too busy running said countries into the fucking dirt (or just straight-up not giving a shit what goes on in Eurasia) to bother doing anything to stop him as he forcibly reunites all of the ex-Warsaw Pact territory.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13116159/Canadian-family-russia-bank-frozen-apology-feenstra.html

It looks like they got their money back and maybe they can make something of their lives. I just hope the kids turn out OK.

Ill send them a nice letter; showing my middle finger

kelemvor posted...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13116159/Canadian-family-russia-bank-frozen-apology-feenstra.html

It looks like they got their money back and maybe they can make something of their lives. I just hope the kids turn out OK.

Looks like they learned to be good Russian puppets.

Russia probably realized no one else would ever move there after this got out

Does Russia even want Americans moving over there? Surely they have their own brand of racism theyve been peddling over there

Rika_Furude posted...

Does Russia even want Americans moving over there? Surely they have their own brand of racism theyve been peddling over there

As long as they're white I'm sure they don't mind, however any American is going to be viewed as a political pawn they can use to try and persuade U.S. policy/action.

Rika_Furude posted...

Does Russia even want Americans moving over there? Surely they have their own brand of racism theyve been peddling over there

Yes. They want the political pawns, and I'm also sure they want more white babies to help solve their demographic issues.

Rika_Furude posted...

Does Russia even want Americans moving over there? Surely they have their own brand of racism theyve been peddling over there

Yes, they want American defectors to spout propaganda. They want people like Snowden.

Background_Guy posted...

Yes, they want American defectors to spout propaganda. They want people like Snowden.

Didn't Snowden at least know how to speak Russian?

SpawnShadow posted...

My guess is that Putin sees more value in foreign fascists staying behind in their own countries than in flooding his, so they can elect dictators who'll be too busy running said countries into the fucking dirt (or just straight-up not giving a shit what goes on in Eurasia) to bother doing anything to stop him as he forcibly reunites all of the ex-Warsaw Pact territory.

My guess is that even though they think they're super important and this article is pretending they're important they're actually nobody at all. This is their fifteen minutes of fame, and most people won't ever see this article. Putin doesn't give a shit about a couple random Americans, nor would it benefit him that much overall to pretend he does.